Janni Aragon is sitting on the Dec 6th Memorial Planning Committee and is making connections across campus. (challenge)

Lee Skallerup Bessette launches College[3][3]Ready[3][3]Writing[3] at Inside Higher Ed! College Ready Writing: a blog about education, higher ed, teaching, and trying to re-imagine how we provide education.Lee’s blog is mentioned by selloutyoursoul[4].[4]com[4] as a blog that represents the voice of group (point[5][5]number[5] 7[5]) in order to create a blog that people actually read.

Mary Churchill co-hosted a networking event on Mentoring and Managing Graduate Students in the STEM disciplines. (challenge)

Rosalie Arcala Hall was designated University of the Philippines Scientist 1. The competitive three year award was granted because of the prodigious amount of peer-reviewed publication output she produced from 2005-2010. She is one of five awardees from the University of the Philippines Visayas and the first social scientist in the University of the Philippines System to be given the award.